The 6^th session SPINEXPO^TM New York will open soon at The Metropolitan Pavilion on July 15^th–17^th, 2014. The upcoming event will bring to New York a new generation of textile suppliers combining a strong supply chain, international design studios and innovative yarn R&D teams accompanied by consolidated manufacturing and established access to raw materials.

A number of spinners participating in the show prefer to meet their clients directly and develop personal relationships with retailers and manufacturers.

Novetex Textiles feels no company is too small to build a new business with and targets brands and companies receptive to better, luxury-end natural fibres who understand the importance of ethical and quality focus to improve environmental respect.

Established in 1976 with more than 1000 employees, Novetex Textiles has developed into one of the world’s largest single site yarn spinners. As part of the Novel Group, their headquarters are located in Hong Kong and the factory in Zhuhai, Southern China.  The factory hosts 4 spinning mills, a dyeing mill and 50 production lines with an annual capacity of 9 million kgs of high quality yarns. Novetex Textiles carries a large stock service of colours in a diverse range of yarn blends and counts all crafted from the world’s finest fibres.  They also offer a customised service for customers to use their facilities to create their own unique yarns and colours.

The Export Department starts the season with an early trip to Europe in June; SPINEXPO New York in July follows. Even though the exhibition is still early for some of the US customers, this is always a successful 3 day event that also allows the company to tailor-make new qualities according to the updated trends of the brand designers.

Novetex Textiles specialises in woollen and semi-worsted yarns focusing on luxury animal fibres from merino and cashmere as well as alpaca, camel and yak. The company shows their expertise by blending these fibres with other fibres to achieve a softer handle, better price points or different effects.

Novetex is also a leader in the organic and ethical certifications for animal and vegetal based fibres, and the first to be certified in Asia as producers of organic wool.  

Novetex Textiles continually looks at new ways to freshen their collection, but this year will prove to be a very challenging one as the current situation with the treatment and animal husbandry of farming angora –which has been in the press lately due to PETA – has led to all European retailers and many US retailers withdrawing from angora consumption altogether and looking for alternatives.  Alternatives in mohair and alpaca are driving up the prices to the point that the market cannot be competitive in these fibres either, which will be the ultimate challenge as to how to serve customers with alternative blends.

Novetex Textiles has been working hard to engineer new blends by adjusting their spinning methods to create softer hand feels without the need for softer animal fibres.  As market leaders in merino woollen spun lambswool (168 colours stock supported) and a wide range of fine merino in semi-worsted and in pure cashmere, 25% of new seasonal colours are constantly added.

Novetex felt that the coming season was the right time to really look beneath the surface of their yarns and create new effects through new twisting and combining of different yarns. They bring to the exhibition a very exciting range of marls, slubs, twists and tweeds for a very textural look to yarns.  Novetex also looked at the denim trend and vintage look and is launching a new range of denim effect yarns with a washed down and vintage appearance.

Novetex offers very friendly minimum quantities to buyers: for stock colours, 1 kg/colour; for non-stock colours, 20 kgs per colour.  Bulk minimum quantity for non-stock colours is 220 kgs per colour.

Novetex has strong links with garment manufacturing and can offer a full vertical service if required. The company also has another brand specialising in circular knitting for merino called Noveland, which is currently targeting accessories and toy markets, along with pet apparel.

Stand D01

Huafu Top Dyed Melange Yarn is a leader in the field of colour, an environmental forerunner and a technology innovator.

Huafu keeps in close contact with buying offices and is always close to the market with frequent visits and daily communication.

Through 21 years of development and industrial deployment, Huafu has obtained a substantial advantage and has formed an industry chain for cotton fields, cotton processing, fibre dyeing and spinning. The company now has 80,000 mu cotton fields and 13 ginning plants in Xinjiang, China. The yarn bases form 5 production areas, including Zhejiang, Yangtze River, Huang-Huai Region, Xinjiang in China, as well as areas overseas, with a production capacity of 1,350,000 spindles. The yarn bases are divided into 30 workshops for professional production, which improves competitive product delivery and forms the regional pattern with total quantity adaptation, differential positioning and coordinating development for the Eastern Area, Middle and Western Areas.

Currently, the company has totally declared 58 national invention patents and utility model patents in China. Many industrial leading technologies, such as vortex mélange yarn, air spinning mélange yarn, and fancy colour mélange yarns, are the original innovation technologies of Huafu Top Dyed Melange Yarn. The yarns have become the first choice of many famous international brands such as H&M, Zara, Polo, Gap, Uniqlo, and domestic brands like Metersbonwe, Semir, Li Ning and Septwolves.

The most important product is Xinjiang Gray yarn, a high-quality produced in Xinjiang with 100% fine combed Xinjiang cotton, suitable for luxury and high-end brands.  It features a clear base, glossy surface, silky woven fabrics, even levelness, high strength, low hairiness and high pilling resistance, and is softer and more elastic.

Other series are presented at the show include:

    · Special appearance mélange yarn series

    · Environmentally-friendly mélange yarn series

    · Cellulose Fibre Series

    · Semi-worsted mélange yarn series

    · Synthetic fibre series

    · Special function mélange yarn series

Minimum quantity per style and per colour: 3000 pounds.

The company centres on the supply of mélange yarns focused on fashion, technology and environmentally-friendly aspects. Huafu has established win-win cooperation partnerships with suppliers such as China National Cotton Group Corporation, Austria Lenzing Group and Cotton USA.

Stand: C05

Shine Max is present on the market with an international trading team conducting early communication with its clients.

The company is a division of Yuteng Cashmere Group, present in the cashmere field for over 18 years, with three factories in Hebei Province, China. The main products are dehaired cashmere and tops.  Woollen yarns are for 26/2Nm, 28/2 and 36/2 Nm; worsted from 48/2 Nm, 60/2 Nm and 68/3 Nm. Personalised colours are added up each year with an annual output of 1300 tons of cashmere products provided to Europe, the USA and Japan.    

Quality control of sourcing and production is of the highest importance. Minimum order is 100 kgs for client’s own colour, and 1 kg for stock service.

Shine Max cashmere yarns are supplied to knitted sweaters and accessories lines.

Stand: F02

Haw Textile is a professional sweater supplier for brand name clients working in partnership and cooperation with several factories specialised in different types of products.

The strength of Haw Textile is product development coordinating fashion trends, brand submarketing and practical manufacturing.  A strong quality control system during each step of the manufacturing process guarantees on-time delivery and perfect quality, as well as the assistance of a very experienced merchandising team offering quick response and solutions to clients’ requirements. The team gives valuable and practical ideas to help buyers make correct decisions or operate orders.

Haw Textile has a yarn library, showrooms and manual machines for swatches in office.  Targeted customers are casual wear and career wear. Minimum quantity per style/colour is 500 pieces.

Haw Textile can knit from 2 GG to 16 GG and supply style concept and swatch collections to brand clients.  They also provide accessories and have good connections offering strong and advanced technology support.

Since the company’s establishment over 15 years ago, Haw Textile has kept an excellent track record and offers the most valuable products in line with their clients’ budgets.

Stand: A02

Chamtex was established in 1995 with headquarters in Hong Kong, a branch office in Hangzhou, and manufacturing plants in Dongguan and Hangzhou, China.

Chamtex’s goal is to exceed the expectations of every client by offering outstanding customer service, increased flexibility and greater added-value for each sweater produced. They provide superior designing and manufacturing, with production reaching 1,200,000 pieces. The products are sold to medium and high range markets in Europe, the USA and Japan.

Chamtex provides jacquards and intarsia to womenswear, menswear, junior and kids wear, with fully computerised knitting machines from 1.5 to 16 GG. They can also provide crochet knit and hand knit, printing, woven mixed with knitwear, sewing, beading and washing.

Chamtex has a strong Research & Development yarn team, sources material and trims, and brings a fresh and innovative approach to manufacturing service. The team distinguishes itself by its functional and technical expertise, combined with their hands-on and intensive experiences.

Stand: E01

Hop Shing is a Hong Kong based knitwear manufacturer with a full production line including design, knitting, linking, washing, panel inspection, ironing, packaging and warehouse.

They have 2 showrooms, one in Hong Kong and one in Mainland China and two types of imported knitting machines: Stoll from Germany which knits from 1.5 GG to 3.5 GG and Japan Shima Seiki going up to 14GG.   They do not set minimum quantities.

Stand: F04